Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-22

the obsequies had ended, he looked down
iato the open place and AID Farewell,
nv honored, faithful and beloved wife.
! The bond that bound US is severed. Thou
art in glory, and am here on earth. We
| shall meet again. FAREWELL FAREWELL"
/ To lean on q prop for fifty years, and then
have it break under you. There were
only two years difference between the
death of my father and mother. After my
! mothers decease, my father used to 60
around IS though looking for something;
/ ne would often get up from one room,
without any seeming reason, and 60 to
another room; and then he would take
! his cane and start out and some one would
/ say: "Father, where are you goingt"
! aud he would answer: al don't know ey-
/ aCtly where | am going" Always look
/ ing for something. Though he was ten
/ der-hesrted man, ! never saw him cry
( but once, and that was at the burial of
my mother. After sixty years living to-
/ gether il was hard to part. And there are
aged people to-day who are feeling Just
/ such 8 paag as that. l want to tell them
there is perfect enchantment ~ the
promises Of this gospel; and l come TO
them and offer them my arm, or
take their arm and bring
/ them to this gospel well. ST. down,
father or mother, sit down. S &c If there
is anything st the well for you. Come,
David, the psslmist, have you anything
encouraging to offer them? eyes," says
the psslmist, "they shall Still bring forth
+ fruit in old age they shall be fist and
/ hOuri5hng, TO show that the Lord is up
right.
CHE Is Ny ROCK,
end there is no unrighteousness in me. "
Come, Isaiah, have you anything to say
out Of your prophecies Tor these aged
people? eyes" says Isaiah, "down 10
old age l am with thee, and to h0ary
hairs will l carry thee" Well, II the
Lord is going to carry you, you ought
not to worry much ebOnt your failing
eYesiglt and failing limbs. You get q
little worried for fear some time you viii
come to want, do you? Your children
and grandchildren sometimes speak s
little sharp at you because CT your all
ments. The Lord will not speak sharp.
Do you think you viii come TO want?
Who 90 you think the Lord is? Are his
gTanaries empty? VIII he feed the raven
and the rabbit, and the lion in the desert,
and forget you? Why, naturGlists
/ tell US thst the pOrpoise will
not forEake IFS wounded and sick mate,
And 10 you suppose the Lord OF Heaven
/ has not as much sympathy az the fish Of
the sea? But you say 81 an so near
worn out aud am Of no use to God any
more" | think the Lord knows whether
/ you are OF any more use or not; if you
were OF no more use He would have taken
/ you before this. ID you think GOD has
/ forgotten you because he has taken care
/ OF you seventy or eighty years? He thinks
more Of you to-day than lie ever did, be
cause you think more of Him. May the
/ God of Abraham, and Isaac, and jacob,
/ and Paul the aged, be your God forever.
/ But | gather ell the promises to-day in
/ g group, and ! ask the shepherds tC drive
| their fJCk5 Of lambs and sheep up TO the
| sparkling supply. "Behold! happy IS the
1 man whom God cOrreCteth." Though
/ He cause grief, yet viii lie have compass
/ siOn.n "Msny are the stliiCtions o. the
/ righteous, but the Lord delivereth him
out Of them all" weeping may endure
| for night, but Joy Cometh in the morn
! ing" | am determined this morning that
no one shall go out Of this house
UNCoNFoRTED.
/ Yonder is timid and shrinking soul who
/ seems 70 hide away from the consultations
l am utterine, as child with q sore hand
/ hides away from the physician lest he
! touch the wound too roughly, and the
mother has TO 90 and compel the little
! patient to come out and see the physician,
| SO l come to your timid and shrinking
! soul to-day, and compel you to come out
in the presence of the Divine Physician.
| He will not hurt you. He has been heal
ing wounds for many years, and He will
/ give you gentle and omnipOtent medica-
/ ment. But people, when they have
| trouble, 90 elsewhere rather than to
/ God. DeQuincy took opium TO get
rid of mis- troubles. Charles Lamb
took to punch. Theodore Hook took to
something stronger. Edwin Forrest took
TO theatrical dissipation, and men have
run all around the earth, hoping in the
/ quick transit to get away from their mis-
I fortunes. It has been g dead failure.
There is only one well that can slake the
thirst of 81 afflicted spirit, end that Is the
deep and ineXlaustible well of the Cos.
pei.
But, some one says IN the audience:
Notwithstanding all you have said this
morning, 1 find no alienation for my
troubles" Well, l am not through yet.
| have left the most potent consideration
for the last. am going to sOOthe you
with the thoughts Of heaven. However
telkative we may be, there viii come 2
time when the stCu,est snd most en-
phetic interrogation will evoke from us
no answer. As soon as we have closed
our lips for the faal silence, no power on
earth can break that taciturnity. But
where, 0 Christian, will be
! your spirit? In q scene Of in
Unite gladness. The spring morning
/ Of heaven waving its blossoms in the
bright air. Vict0rs fresh from battle
showing their scars. The rain Of earthly
sorrow struck through with the rainbow
Of eternal Joy. In enc group God and
angels and red.emeG-Paul ard Sllas,
Latimer and Ridley, Isaiah snd jeremiah,
Payson and John Milton, Gabriel and
Michael the archGngel Long line of
/ choristers reaching across the hills. Seas
of Joy dashing to the white beach. Con-
| querors marching from gate to gste.
You among them.
Oh, what great flock Of sheep God
will gather around the celestial well. No
stone on the Wells mouth, while the she1-
herd waters the sheep. There Jacot will
recognize Rachel the shepherdess.
And standing on one side CT
the well OF external rap
ture, your children; and standing on the
other side Of eternal rapture, your Chris
tian ancestry, you will be bounded on all
sides by Joy so keen and grand that no
other world has ever been permitted to
experience it. Out of that one deep well